booze.jpgGet ready to designate a driver because this Saturday, starting at 8:15 PM, police will be holding a sobriety checkpoint somewhere (they won’t say where) in the city.

Officers from all around the city will be staffing the checkpoint, which will be in place until around 3am.

Since August 20, 26 DUI arrests have been made by SFPD and San Francisco CHP Officers. The consequences of receiving one of those DUIs are, of course, very high, and could be getting higher.

Says SFPD Sgt. Neil Swendsen,”If you’re convicted of a DUI charge, you’ll get four days to six months in jail, three to five years of probation, our license will be suspended, you’ll miss time from work and have the conviction on your record for 10 years,”

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Always in motion. April Siese writes about music, takes photos at shows, and even helps put them on behind the scenes as a stagehand. She's written everything from hard news to beauty features, as well as fiction and poetry. She most definitely likes pie.

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